#and all that rage will be directed right at the fuckwads in power

[daylighteclipsed]

i really wish it was something else like roe v wade overturned, the anti-lgbtq bills, the racism, children being gunned down in school, etc to unite Americans like this but if banning tiktok of all things is the straw that breaks the camel’s back so fucking be it. Viva la revolution

[moro-nokimi]

Good day, japanese person present here to say: dear person, please go outside and better your life, it's the best you do. Also, exposing people in the manner that you and your other 2 friend are doing is harassment. It not matters that one of friends of yours are minor, harrassment is bad thing. Excuse my poor english, I just know to read most things english in language and have western artist friend in Tumblr and I also artist and would like not to get exposition this way.

all right. i’m out here bettering my life and one of my new year’s resolutions is a small step in the right direction (being kinder to myself). i’m doing stuff that’s best for me. just because i got into discourse today doesn’t mean i’m a recluse with nothing better to do. (trust me, I do. I just happen to give a fuck about how my friend was treated and how i personally am being treated.) i don’t typically get into discourse; they brought the discourse to me.

furthermore, there was no harassment on mine or mantis’ blogs. none. the people who were dicks to mantis, who posted their opinion in their blog, decided to call THEM pathetic and cringe, among other shitty names. this is a 15 year old you’re talking about. mantis didn’t bring this upon themself because they posted their opinion and tagged it accordingly. there wasn’t any shitting on anyone; they weren’t crawling into someone’s house with a crowbar telling people to shut up about matt. that is harassment. other people ganging up on a 15 year old is fucking harassment, and there’s not a damn way around it.

look, there was no harassment on my side. harassment requires a pattern and a power imbalance: neither of which are at play when i made that interaction public record. and yk what’s more likely? they have more followers than me and they’re a fucking adult. they were the one that went after a fucking teenager with less than 200 followers, which could’ve been avoided if they hadn’t been a fucking idiot and scrolled past those notes while going “ah shit, that’s something i have to be careful of!” … which they didn’t. if you want to talk about harassment, again, have that same energy towards the fuckwads/raging assholes/what have you in mantis’ notes. where’s the power imbalance necessary to make this a case of harassment and bullying?

and furthermore, if you send messages to me where you can go unchecked, i’m not going to let that happen. if i’d chosen to continue the discourse in messages, they can do whatever they want, block me, and forget about it. (and i did mull this over: i decided it was better if i just screenshotted it and added it onto my textpost.) it’s not easy to pull up messages on tumblr from some idiot who’s blocked you, and in textposts, they’re now public record and easily accessible. it’s now public record that some idiot went after me for mentioning racism in the notes instead of in a rb, to be clear.

i’ll put up with a lot but i won’t put up with being strawmanned and having someone be rude to me. them being passive aggressive and talking down to me is rude, and I won’t stand for that. 

this was not something that affected them, and i think it’s telling that they were so offended that i pointed out the racism in the aforementioned art. they could have scrolled past it, chosen not to check the notes, etc, and they didn’t. instead, they chose to call me a jerk and a bully and escalate things. 

and look. i’m aware that harassment is a bad thing - hello, bullying victim here! I know what it looks like, and none of the situations at that point were harassment or bullying perpetrated by me. 

btw, your english is perfectly fine. i’m sorry you had to be exposed to all that in the way you were.